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Thread Mill 2017 Beta3


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Is this something that changed from beta 2 to 3? I already had the threadmill defined in this program with geometry from a level and the pitch and number of teeth were set. It seems to have lost the association to the level and won't let me use the geometry with the same parameters in the tool definition that was there.

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Hopefully this change doesn't stay. I like being able to set my max number of teeth. For example, if you are trying to cut a thread that is longer than your flute length but don't want to do in in steps due to deflection issues, you can just set active threads to 1 and it will spiral up to your top of stock value. I would hate to lose that option.

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I could be wrong but I thought the first field in the tool def for threadmill asked for thread pitch. I changed from pitch to number of threads per inch and it worked. But I also noticed that any tool I had linked to a profile on a level now gives me a warning about "Bad custom tool profile source" "the custom tool's referenced file or level is not valid or cannot be accessed." Is there some way to avoid this? I have a tool library for these parts but I get the same problem when I try re-selecting the tool from the library.

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Hijack:

When was beta 3 released? Or better yet, how can I tell which beta version I have?

 

They used to announce the beta releases here, but don't seem to do so now.

 

Too bad, as I don't really visit the other forum that often.

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